Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 6, 1933

American Dream (by George
O'Neil; Theatre Guild, producer). Unlike Poet Stephen Vincent Benét,
Poet O'Neil makes no attempt to evoke the buffalo-ghost, the
broncho-ghost with dollar-silver in its saddle-horn, the pure elixir,
the American thing. Poet O'Neil's preachment is the sort of cheap
claptrap with which a third-rate evangelist might try to impress a
young folks' Bible class. That it impressed the Guild's hard-headed
production committee is cause for wonder.

Dramatically, the playwright had two strikes against him when he set out
to follow the New England Pingrees, in three acts and...